parenting hacks

Photo: Shutterstock You see that remote in that baby’s hand? That’s gonna be missing in about 15 seconds. Because you’re going to turn away for a moment, you’re going to pop your coffee mug into the microwave (again) and by the time you return, it will be long gone. Little kids love remotes. But not…

Parenting through the toddler years can sometimes feel less like a rewarding experience and more like waking up and going into battle every day. We’ve written a lot about toddlers this year, and as we wrap up 2018, it feels like a good time to revisit and collect all our favorite toddler posts into one…

Little kids are notoriously difficult creatures to feed. They gaze at their meals with a skeptical eye—“Um, why is this meatball lumpy? Is my pasta touching my peas? What? An orange carrot? That’s it, I’m done.” As a parent, you may have resorted to pleas, bribes or even threats to get your dear child to…

Best of LifehackerWhether we’ve made a complicated recipe absurdly simple, illustrated how to survive a natural disaster, or explained a political crisis in terms even your great-grandma would understand, these are some of our favorite stories from the past year.   Parenting through the toddler years can sometimes feel less like a rewarding experience and more…

Little kids are notoriously difficult creatures to feed. They gaze at their meals with a skeptical eye—“Um, why is this meatball lumpy? Is my pasta touching my peas? What? An orange carrot? That’s it, I’m done.” As a parent, you may have resorted to pleas, bribes or even threats to get your dear child to…

Elsie Fisher in ‘Eighth Grade’Screenshot: A24 Every parent wants to know if that time they blew up and yelled at their kid is going to scar them for life. Maybe that one afternoon you took them to the zoo and an orangutan made them cry is going to instill a lifelong fear of redheads. Who…

Photo: Kentaro Morita via Twitter I live in suburbia, so I don’t what it’s like to constantly have to navigate big crowds with little kids. But it seems stressful. You only have two hands! You tell me you’re supposed to dedicate at least one of them to preventing your tiny tots from getting swept into…

Photo: ShutterstockAs someone who actively seeks out and writes about parenting hacks every day, I’m always looking for shortcuts and tricks to make your lives (and my own) a tiny bit easier. But not all hacks are created equal, and a hack that works brilliantly for one parent might be a complete waste of time…